i played FFVIII and that was alright, but it gave you eyestrain how you had to read all that dialogue, like you said it gets boring and when i heard of KotOR being a RPG i thought it would have been junk, so eventually tried it and i expected it like Final Fantasy but star wars theme, but i was mistaken it was so much better as mentioned it didnt have that zoom into battle arena thing. you where more free, and so much was effected by what you said, and i was really compelled by this game